This talk reports on AnnieWAY, an autonomous vehicle that is capable of driving through urban scenarios and that successfully entered the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007 competition.We describe the main challenges imposed (more…)

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In 1947 the transistor was invented at Bell Telephone Laboratories; for this breakthrough, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley were awarded the 1956 Nobel prize in physics. ? In fact, there were actually three distinctly different versions (more…)

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The Photovoltaic Specialists Conference presents groundbreaking research papers on all aspects of PV-relevant materials, devices, systems and applications. We once again have a very strong Technical Program that will encompass seven programmatic areas (more…)

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UPCOMING CLASSES for Working EngineersUC Santa Cruz Extension in Silicon Valley
– Classes at our Sunnyvale and Cupertino CampusesRegister early for a 10% discount. Browse the full course listing and other information: www.ucsc-extension.edu/EngTech

The Sixteenth Annual IEEESymposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Dates: April 14-15, 2008
Location: Stanford University campus
Register by March 28 â?? save $100
Web: www.fccm.org
FCCM is a forum for presenting new research on reconfigurable computing – the use of field-programmable technologies for high performance and/or low energy computation. Topics presented at FCCM cover (more…)

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SCUâ??s School of Engineering offers masters and Ph.D. degrees, professional certificates, and Open University programs in Applied Mathematics, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Software Engineering, and (more…)

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